Speed Issues Being Worked On

I just wanted to remind everyone that this site is in a BETA state. But that said...we are working on the speed issues as we speak, and we have already fixed the anonymous poster problem...we think. =)

I tried to post to the "bug report" thread but I got a warning that I didn't have the necessary permission/level to reply to that thread. This seems like a catch-22 bug although I guess that if I level up, I can workaround it.

Anyway, I wanted to report several bugs.

1- The first one is minor. The new site displays date formats inconsistently.

The related posts panel shows 2 different formats:

The Tides That Divide - Is Game Development A Cooperative Or Competitive Game?
by Matthew Kato Sep 29, 2009 at 13:10 PM

You No Good Dirty Cheater! - The Scourge Infecting Online Gaming
by Matthew Kato 09/29/09 at 23:08 PM

and under user profile, the beta site uses a third one - 09-30-2009 00:00:00

I checked my user settings and the date format control only seems to affect the forum.

2- The second one is more significant. I noticed that the navigation menu bar (under the site name and real-time status update block) is displaying text in a strange text encoding (or maybe, it's just simply garbled English text). I took a snapshot of it. I'll post my snapshot using the file attachment option for posting and hope that it works. (Due to file size restrictions, I could only upload a low-res image but I still have the original hi-res image.)

3- When replying to a thread post (this one in particular), when switching between the "fast" and "advanced" reply modes, any text that's been entered in the "fast" mode buffer isn't copied over to the "advanced" mode buffer. The text remains in the "fast" mode buffer after the switch so when I made the switch, I had to manually cut-and-paste the text between buffers.

The speed is down quite a bit for me right now, and it's not my internet connection either. I'm just gonna hope that it's because a team of highly trained monkeys are adding some bells and whistles to the site.

The speed is down quite a bit for me right now, and it's not my internet connection either. I'm just gonna hope that it's because a team of highly trained monkeys are adding some bells and whistles to the site.

Same here mate, not alone on the speed thing right now. So I am rocking about 5 tabs so I don't have to stop.

The speed is down quite a bit for me right now, and it's not my internet connection either. I'm just gonna hope that it's because a team of highly trained monkeys are adding some bells and whistles to the site.

Your not the only one, Site went to a slow crawl around 1:25p CST, give or a take a few minutes. Someone must of loosened the wrong bolt while tinkering in the undercarriage.

/Lurking mode activate.

The difficult is easily done; it's the impossible that takes a little while